ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

Earlier this year, Jack Egnatinsky, MD, visited the Aeromedical Staging Facility to place an Accreditation Association of Ambulatory Health Care coins on display, according to the AAAHC newsletter.

Accreditation has long been considered a valuable quality marker in healthcare. Two recent studies highlight the importance of bariatric surgery accreditation, according to a General Surgery News report.

Here are five steps to take when running through an ambulatory surgery center emergency drill, according to the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.

Here are four recent updates on the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.

The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care Institute for Quality Improvement presented the 2014 Bernard A. Kershner Innovations in Quality Improvement Awards.

New York City-based Yorkville Endoscopy, the ambulatory surgery center at which Joan Rivers went into cardiac arrest preceding her death, has announced it has a plan to correct its accreditation and safety errors, and CMS has approved the plan, according…

The unfortunate incidents leading to the death of Joan Rivers have cast a pall over the ASC industry. Normally the model for healthcare safety and reliability, the comedienne's death as the result of an ASC-based procedure has called the industry's…

Chesapeake, Md.-based Chesapeake Urology's Summit Ambulatory Surgery Centers announced reaccreditation.

The Joint Commission approved the policy and procedure of multidose eye drops in April 2012, according to a MPR report.

The following ASCs have achieved successful accreditations from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, according to a post on the AmSurg Leadership Blog.